Daleville, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47334. It stands on Small Branch. The Survey maps it on the Middletown quadrangle. 1,651 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Daleville within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Daleville grew from 1,647 to 1,651 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	1,647
2020	1,651	+4 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

In the county-history sources

15,031 words on this township

A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware County, Indiana :, published 1894 names this settlement in its chapter on Salem Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Dr. Brandon was reared in Fairmount, Grant county, Ind., where the most of his boyhood was spent in school, and at the age of eighteen he began the life of a teacher, continuing thus until he was twenty-six years of age. In 1876 he attended medical lectures in the city of Cincinnati, and began practice in Grant county, Ind., working faithfully among the sick and needy from 1880 until 1881, when he attended the medical department of the Butler university, from which he graduated in the winter of 1880-1. He then located at Andrews, Ind. , remaining there until 1889, when he came to the pleasant village of Daleville, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. He has taken advantage of every opportunity for perfecting his knowledge, and during 1888 took a course in a hospital for practice, going to New York for this purpose.

Passage source: A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware County, Indiana :, published 1894.

Frank Daniels was reared to the occupation of miller. He received a good education and was thus prepared to conduct business successfully. In 1878 he, with his only brother, bought the flouring mill at Middletown, and, after operating it until 1882 he came to Salem township and purchased the mill which he is now engaged in conducting. Since 1889 he has had a partner in J. W. Overman. They entirely refitted the mill and put in the full roller process, with all modern improvements, and it is now conducted as a first class mill and is doing a good business. Mr. Daniels was married February 17, 1880, to Miss Cora Moore, daughter of John K. and Elnora (Crim) Moore, of English extraction, and one child has been born of this union, namely, Edith. Politically, Mr. j Daniels adheres to the republican party, and is | one of the progressive and wide awake citizens | of the town of Daleville. i

Passage source: A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware County, Indiana :, published 1894.

In October 28, 1858, Mr. Fenwick was married to Miss Elizabeth Saunders, daughter of John and Levina (Sullivan) Saunders, who were natives of North Carolina, of Irish origin. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders emigrated to the state of Tennessee, thence to Ohio, and from there to Delaware county, Ind. After his marriage Mr. Fenwick continued working at his trade, and during the period up to 1870 did a good business and became well known as a builder and contractor, but at that time he abandoned carpentry and engaged in farming, which he has since followed with encouraging success. To Mr. and Mrs. Fenwick have been born the following named children; Mary J., born May 4, i860, wife of Samuel C. Rinker, and they now reside in Salem township; Lowell H., born February 8, 1862, married Mary Grow and resides in Daleville; Joseph N., born January 10, 1865, and is a teacher in Delaware county; John N., born July 22, 1867, resides in Colorado; Carey P. , born September i, 1871; Jephtha V., born November 24, 1874; Viola J., born April 21, 1878, and Grover S. , born April 10, 1884. Mr. Fenwick has never united with any church organization, but Mrs. Fenwick is one of the most valued members of the Christian church. Fraternally he is a member of the I. O. O. F. , having joined Daleville lodge. No. 309, June 6, 1868, and has held all the offices in the lodge. In his political views, Mr. Fenwick affiliates with the democratic party, believing that the principles enunciated by that party are the best for the government of the country.

Passage source: A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware County, Indiana :, published 1894.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Salem Township - it names this place 20 more 20 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Daleville in 2004, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 October 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Daleville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Anderson Pit & Mill No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Chesterfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daleville in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2025	Lightning	Daleville	$30,000	A vehicle was struck by lightning on Interstate 69. No injuries were reported but the vehicle was a total loss after catching in fire.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Daleville	$25,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts caused tree damage and roof damage to a pole barn.
March 2020	Flash Flood	Daleville	$25,000	Eighteen inches of water was flowing over the intersection of Tillotson and Euclid avenues. There were several water rescues that occurred in Muncie as well as numerous road closures between Anderson and Muncie due to rapidly rising waters.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Daleville	$5,000	Trees were reported down in Daleville due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report came in via social media.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Daleville	$3,000	Tree damage was reported from the intersection of County Roads 950 West and 700 South due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Daleville	$1,000	Large tree branches were downed due to an EF0 tornado that touched down quickly and lifted again. Minimal damage to the homestead. The owners saw the tornado.
March 2020	Hail	Daleville	-	Relayed via Skywarn network.
May 2011	Hail	Daleville	-	Hail fell for five minutes and was covering the ground.
June 2023	Hail	Daleville	-	no account filed
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Daleville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Daleville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cross Roads	3.7 miles	13
Yorktown	5.0 miles	17
West Muncie	5.3 miles	17
Progress	6.1 miles	13
Reed Station	6.8 miles	14
Cammack	7.0 miles	17
Middletown Park	7.6 miles	17
Bethel	9.0 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Daleville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q935402	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 433295. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.